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en-usPhys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.How the legs of water striders repel water(Phys.org)—Materials scientists study biology at nanoscale in order to incorporate mechanical solutions to problems that have already been resolved by evolution. This biomimicry is evident in much recent technology, including Velcro material inspired by Alpine seeds clinging to dog fur, materials with self-healing capabilities, and synthetic melanin films inspired by bird feathers.http://phys.org/news/2015-07-legs-striders-repel.html
General Physics Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:20:07 EDTnews356517949Largest-ever scientific camera trapping survey reveals 'secret lives of the Serengeti'The use of camera traps—remote automatic cameras triggered by heat or motion—has revolutionized wildlife ecology and conservation research. But the large number of images generated through the traps creates the problem of categorizing and analyzing all the images.http://phys.org/news/2015-06-largest-ever-scientific-camera-survey-reveals.html
Ecology Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:00:01 EDTnews353059112Study shows bats adjust the gape of their mouth to zoom field of view of biosonarA team of researchers with Tel Aviv University has found that at least one kind of bat (the Bodenheimer's pipistrelle) is able to zoom in on information it receives from its biosonar, by adjusting the degree to which it stretches its mouth open. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes the experiments they conducted with bats and how it is that mouth stretching is able to help the bats.http://phys.org/news/2015-05-adjust-gape-mouth-field-view.html
Plants & Animals Mon, 11 May 2015 10:10:01 EDTnews350556658Study shows one reason why pigeons so rarely crash(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with Harvard University has uncovered one of the secrets behind pigeons' impressive flight abilities. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, David Williams and Andrew Biewener describe how they videotaped some of the birds flying through an obstacle course they made, and what they found when they examined the footage.http://phys.org/news/2015-03-pigeons-rarely.html
Plants & Animals Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:33:19 EDTnews344601188Study shows long tail on luna moth helps to thwart bat attacks (w/ Video)(Phys.org)—A team of researches with members from several institutions in the U.S. has found that the long tails sported by the luna moth exist as a means to foil attacks by bats. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team reports on experiments they conducted that confirmed the true purpose of the abnormally long tails in the moths.http://phys.org/news/2015-02-tail-luna-moth-thwart-video.html
Plants & Animals Tue, 17 Feb 2015 08:30:03 EDTnews343376740Algorithm recovers speech from vibrations of potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glassResearchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass.http://phys.org/news/2014-08-algorithm-recovers-speech-vibrations-potato-chip.html
Computer Sciences Mon, 04 Aug 2014 07:42:10 EDTnews326356907Image: Curiosity Mars rover beside sandstone target 'Windjana'(Phys.org) —This image from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a sandstone slab on which the rover team has selected a target, "Windjana," for close-up examination and possible drilling. The target is on the approximately 2-foot-wide (60-centimeter-wide) rock seen in the right half of this view.http://phys.org/news/2014-04-image-curiosity-mars-rover-sandstone.html
Space Exploration Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:20:01 EDTnews317981366Field study shows how sailfish use their bill to catch fish(Phys.org) —A large team of European researchers has finally revealed the purpose of the long, thin, needle-like bill sported by the famous sailfish. It's used, they report in their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, to sneak into fish schools to capture prey unaware, and then to stun and slash to capture food.http://phys.org/news/2014-04-field-sailfish-bill-fish.html
Plants & Animals Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:00:02 EDTnews317464439Dawn reality-checks telescope studies of asteroids(Phys.org) —Tantalized by images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data, scientists thought the giant asteroid Vesta deserved a closer look. They got a chance to do that in 2011 and 2012, when NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited the giant asteroid, and they were able to check earlier conclusions. A new study involving Dawn's observations during that time period demonstrates how this relationship works with Hubble and ground-based telescopes to clarify our understanding of a solar system object.http://phys.org/news/2013-09-dawn-reality-checks-telescope-asteroids.html
Space Exploration Mon, 30 Sep 2013 05:25:58 EDTnews299737525A new technique for panoramic, very-high-resolution, time-lapse photography for plant and ecosystem researchEver wonder what plants do when you're not around? How about an entire forest or grassland? Not even the most dedicated plant researcher can be continuously present to track environmental effects on plant behavior, and so numerous tools have been developed to measure and quantify these effects. Time-lapse photography has been used to study many aspects of plant behavior, but typically only a few plants can be captured with a single camera at the desired level of detail. This limitation has, for the most part, confined such observations to the laboratory.http://phys.org/news/2013-09-technique-panoramic-very-high-resolution-time-lapse-photography.html
Other Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:47:09 EDTnews299339219Fireballs in Jupiter's atmosphere observed by amateur astronomersThe solar system is crowded with small objects like asteroids and comets. Most have stable orbits which keep them out of harm's way, but a small proportion of them are in orbits that risk them colliding with planets.http://phys.org/news/2013-09-fireballs-jupiter-atmosphere-amateur-astronomers.html
Astronomy Sat, 14 Sep 2013 06:50:04 EDTnews298359277Major volcanic eruption seen on Jupiter's moon IoRecent observations of Jupiter's moon Io has revealed a massive volcanic eruption taking place 628,300,000 km (390,400,000 miles) from Earth. Io, the innermost of the four largest moons around Jupiter, is the most volcanically active object in the Solar System with about 240 active regions. But this new one definitely caught the eye of Dr. Imke de Pater, Professor of Astronomy and of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California in Berkeley. She was using the Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii on August 15, 2013 when it immediately became apparent something big was happening at Io.http://phys.org/news/2013-08-major-volcanic-eruption-jupiter-moon.html
Space Exploration Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:47:09 EDTnews296725617Poised for discovery: Gemini's much-anticipated infrared instrument goes on-sky(Phys.org) —Gemini Observatory's latest instrument, a powerful infrared camera and spectrograph at Gemini South, reveals its potential in a series of striking on-sky commissioning images released today.http://phys.org/news/2013-08-poised-discovery-gemini-much-anticipated-infrared.html
Astronomy Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:44:12 EDTnews295206233Las Cumbres Observatory 'Sinistro' astronomy imager captures first lightLas Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT), with first lights at nine new 1-meter telescopes since April of 2012, achieved another critical milestone by capturing the first on-sky image with a production Sinistro camera. In development for over six years, the camera is arguably more important than the telescopes that will use them. "A telescope is really nothing more than a large camera lens," explained Joe Tufts, instrumentation scientist on the Sinistro project. "A large, precise, stable, and very expensive camera lens."http://phys.org/news/2013-08-las-cumbres-observatory-sinistro-astronomy.html
Astronomy Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:21:43 EDTnews294589293100-megapixel camera developedA Chinese institute has successfully developed a camera featuring a 100-megapixel charge-coupled device (CCD) chip, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Wednesday.http://phys.org/news/2013-07-megapixel-camera.html
Hi Tech & Innovation Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:22:10 EDTnews292760518Thales Alenia Space kicks off Euclid constructionThe construction of ESA's Euclid space mission to explore the 'dark Universe' will be led by Italy's Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor, beginning the full industrial phase of the project. http://phys.org/news/2013-07-thales-alenia-space-euclid.html
Space Exploration Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:00:14 EDTnews292573857Billion-pixel view of Mars comes from Curiosity rover(Phys.org) —A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great detail.http://phys.org/news/2013-06-billion-pixel-view-mars-curiosity-rover.html
Space Exploration Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:03:33 EDTnews290883807Euclid to probe dark Universe with Astrium science module(Phys.org) —The module carrying the telescope and scientific instruments of ESA's Euclid 'dark Universe' mission is now being developed by Astrium in Toulouse, France.http://phys.org/news/2013-06-euclid-probe-dark-universe-astrium.html
Astronomy Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:11:48 EDTnews290171502Mars stereo view from 'John Klein' to Mount Sharp—raw(Phys.org) —Left and right eyes of the Navigation Camera (Navcam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took the dozens of images combined into this stereo scene of the rover and its surroundings. The component images were taken during the 166th, 168th and 169th Martian days, or sols, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Jan. 23, 25 and 26, 2013). The scene appears three dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left. It spans 360 degrees, with Mount Sharp on the southern horizon.http://phys.org/news/2013-04-mars-stereo-view-john-klein.html
Space Exploration Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:03:58 EDTnews286095830Scientists discover why soft corals have unique pulsating motionScientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered why Heteroxenia corals pulsate. Their work, which resolves an old scientific mystery, appears in the current issue of PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).http://phys.org/news/2013-04-scientists-soft-corals-unique-pulsating.html
Plants & Animals Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:16:50 EDTnews285930999New high-speed camera system reveals what snow looks like in midairUniversity of Utah researchers developed a high-speed camera system that spent the past two winters photographing snowflakes in 3-D as they fell – and they don't look much like those perfect-but-rare snowflakes often seen in photos.http://phys.org/news/2013-04-device-reveals-midair.html
Engineering Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:46:18 EDTnews284784327Curiosity resumes science investigationsNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted the engineers to switch the rover to a redundant main computer on Feb. 28.http://phys.org/news/2013-03-curiosity-resumes-science.html
Space Exploration Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:43:34 EDTnews283513408NASA's Webb Telescope components meet 'Big Red'(Phys.org)—"Big Red" isn't a golden retriever or a NASA engineer, it's the nickname for a small chamber that helps ensure equipment can withstand very cold temperatures that would be experienced in space.http://phys.org/news/2013-02-nasa-webb-telescope-components-big.html
Space Exploration Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:40:01 EDTnews281175961Underwater robot: New remotely operated vehicle to aid UD marine research effortsAn underwater robot made a splash at a University of Delaware swimming pool recently in a test of the new equipment, which will soon be used in field research by College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE) scientists.http://phys.org/news/2013-02-underwater-robot-remotely-vehicle-aid.html
Earth Sciences Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:30:47 EDTnews281003431ASU Mars education program wins science-teaching award from Science magazineLetting secondary school students use an operating NASA spacecraft to take images of Mars is about as hands-on as science education can get. Nor are the students just aiming the space camera randomly. Instead, they are targeting an image on the Red Planet's surface to answer a scientific question about Mars that the students themselves have developed.http://phys.org/news/2013-02-asu-mars-science-teaching-award-science.html
Space Exploration Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:58:12 EDTnews280684666Small but mighty Xenon flash for mobile phones: Great shots in the dark soon to be a realityA Singapore invention looks set to equip mobile phones with a built-in, small yet powerful Xenon flash, allowing consumers to take great photos even in low-light conditions.http://phys.org/news/2013-02-small-mighty-xenon-mobile-great.html
Semiconductors Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:58:15 EDTnews280576676Shimmering water reveals cold volcanic vent in Antarctic watersThe location of an underwater volcanic vent, marked by a low-lying plume of shimmering water, has been revealed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.http://phys.org/news/2013-02-shimmering-reveals-cold-volcanic-vent.html
Earth Sciences Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:35:33 EDTnews279372919NASA readies famous 'Chamber A' to welcome the James Webb Space TelescopeNASA's "Chamber A" thermal vacuum testing chamber famous for being used during Apollo missions has now been upgraded and remodeled to accommodate testing the James Webb Space Telescope.http://phys.org/news/2013-01-nasa-readies-famous-chamber-james.html
Space Exploration Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:47:23 EDTnews278272038Dolphins filmed fishing in trawler nets: Modifications needed to reduce bycatch(Phys.org)—Murdoch University researchers have caught bottlenose dolphins on camera repeatedly raiding trawler fishing nets for food in northern Western Australia.http://phys.org/news/2012-11-dolphins-fishing-trawler-nets-modifications.html
Plants & Animals Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:20:11 EDTnews271070399'Giant erector set' supports Webb Telescope test component(Phys.org)—A new photograph taken inside the giant clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., shows what looks like a giant Erector Set supporting a test component of the James Webb Space Telescope.http://phys.org/news/2012-10-giant-erector-webb-telescope-component.html
Space Exploration Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:05:37 EDTnews269672729